Oklahoma knitters are taking part in a massive knitted piece set to go on display in Tulsa in the Brady Arts District. The project “The Unbearable Absence of Landscapes” requires 4,000 knitted squares and will cover the entire outdoor facade of the gallery.

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Oklahoma knitters are taking part in a massive knitted piece set to go on display in Tulsa in the Brady Arts District. The project “The Unbearable Absence of Landscapes” requires 4,000 knitted squares and will cover the entire outdoor facade of the gallery.

TIA’s Bwesigye bwa Mwesigire looks at the prevalence of African Wear in East and West Africa and concludes that the law and political attitudes in Uganda and Kenya discourage the wearing of African clothes harsher than in Nigeria and Ghana

The project includes over 550,000 clips that amount to over a million minutes of video.

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"History buffs and information junkies alike have reason to rejoice: the Associated Press has released thousands of archived newsreel clips on YouTube.

"Videos "from 1895 to tomorrow," as AP says in their introductory video, are in the process of being uploaded to YouTube. This project is being realized with the help of British Movietone, a group that was called "one of the world's most comprehensive newsreel archives" by the AP in a press release.

"The project includes over 550,000 clips that amount to over a million minutes of video. Already released is footage from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, the clashes in Cairo in 2011, shots of Marilyn Monroe, Queen Elizabeth opening London Bridge, and dozens of sporting events."

History is the polemics of the victor, William F. Buckley allegedly said. Not so in the United States, at least not regarding the Civil War. As soon as Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort what they had done, and why. Their resulting mythology went national a generation later and persists — which is why a presidential candidate can suggest that slavery was somehow pro-family, and the public believes that the war was mainly fought over states’ rights.

The Confederates won with the pen (and the noose) what they could not win on the battlefield: the cause of white supremacy and the dominant understanding of what the war was all about. We are still digging ourselves out from under the misinformation that they spread, which has manifested in both our history books and our public monuments.

In a remarkable feat of miniaturized engineering, Takara Tomy has created a tiny R2-D2 toy that stands just over an inch tall but can still be steered around your desk using an equally small lightsaber remote control.

German street artist Kim Köster is doing the impossible—turning the typically scary content of monsters and abandoned buildings into interactive entertainment for children. Köster started by spray painting mischievous monsters in derelict warehouse sites outside of Berlin, allowing the

Facebook wants to increase revenue by encouraging engagement, so it has invented DeepFace, a feature with a sinister name and the ability to recognise and tag a face in a photo with an accuracy rate of 97.25 per cent. This isn’t taking place in a far-off future: DeepFace is now being trailed in the US as an opt-in feature, although it is not yet useable in the UK.

That means every photo of you put on Facebook, whether flattering or incriminating, could potentially be linked to you by Facebook, even if it never appears on your profile.

GranGoddessa Loves the JIKA BOYS, who are a house music group from SOUTH AFRICA that was formed in the township of PRETORIA called SOSHANGUVE in 2013. The group consists of two vocalists, LEON (Aaron Makgaba) and TSL (Jacob Mahlangu) & a drummer TJ (Themba Dlamini) all members are in their early twenties. Although widely associated with alternative house music, they have also incorporated with dance music widely known as electro.

Chicago artist Jim Bachor is one of many citizens fed up with the state of city roads following the long and harsh winters of the Windy City, yet he’s one of the few to use his talents to transform the dangerous craters into delightfully summery mosaics. Looking good enough to eat, his newest frozen dessert designs can be found around the city just in time for summer.

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